A prominent Russian human rights lawyer, Stanislav Markelov, and a freelance journalist, Anastasiya Baburova, have been murdered in the centre of Moscow. Markelov, who acted for the family of a Chechen woman murdered by a Russian army officer, was shot in the head after leaving a press conference.
He was protesting at the early release from jail of the officer - the first Russian officer to be prosecuted for killing a civilian during the Chechnya conflict - who confessed to strangling the woman.
Baburova, who has written for Novaya Gazeta (a paper part-owned by Alexander Lebedev), was wounded in the attack and died later in hospital. (Via BBC)
